How strange that it is exactly one year since COVID-19 turned life upside down. March 12, 2020 was the first day that I started teaching my classes at NYU over Zoom, and everything has been over Zoom since then.
It has been a very strange and sad year for the world. All we can hope for is that the coming year sees the end of this awful pandemic.
As Joni Mitchell said, “You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.” In addition to the terrible toll in people lost, I think we have all regained a renewed appreciation for the experience of being in the same place with people we love.
Among other things, I will never again take for granted the simple joy of sharing a cup of coffee with friends.